Could it be that the earth’s natural water cycle of evaporation, transpiration, condensation and precipitation is a model for reincarnation?
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I guess as much as any cyclical event such as day and night or the seasons, but from my recollection of reincarnation in the Buddhist tradition reincarnation is linked to karma, that the ethical/moral choices we make in one life effect the form of reincarnation in the next, and so the cycle begins again, until, if ever, a perfect life is achieved that releases the soul from the cycle. I’m sorry but I don’t know the actual terms for these events and I am paraphrasing a lot. So I guess the cyclical nature of water you describe would offer an analogous model but it doesn’t contain the aspect of choice on the part of water.
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I completely echo what you say. In my grief I don’t know how I would be coping without meditation and mindfulness. I am thankful I learned about this a few years ago before Mum died, but while she was getting weaker. For me it is knowing about how meditation feels and the peace and space it brings, that holds me in one piece when at times I am doubling up in pain at thoughts of my mother’s suffering. I just keep on going but it is still very hard.
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Hi Fiona I find being in nature very helpful, I spend a lot of time walking looking for beautiful things to share with my wife. I think physically exercise helps with grief and I also do a bit of yoga every morning which although it often ends in tears, the tears seem to be more cathartic.
Wishing you all the best Tom
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Thank you Tom. Yes completely agree, my daily walking in nature is the best way to cope and the tears just come anyway but being in nature helps puts me in another bigger place as well. I hope you too. Thank you for writing. It is a comfort to communicate with others in this way where we all want to help each other and we understand each others constant tears. All the best to you Tom.
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When I found my husband on that terrible day, he was smiling.
He was a very good man, his morals were excellent and he was kind. So if Karma is true, then maybe he now has a perfect life, it’s what I wish for him.
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Dear Wilson9 Thank you very much, it is very generous and kind of you to try and explain so well and so thoroughly to help others. I will be re reading this again and again I think. All the very best to you and everyone else reading this.
Fiona14
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Very, very interesting.
Guess my hardest thing to let go is his physical form.
I do love my friends and can enjoy their company but I am afraid he was very special and no one holds a candle to him!
But I will try yet again to connect with my mindfulness again as it does help with the troubled mind!
But not the physical form.
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